Though it may seem that a job as film preservation and restoration comes from a certain nostalgia for the past, it has in fact its glance fixed in the future. The work of preserving films has to do with making valuable things endure for the times to come. This year we...
Today we want to share with you a text by James Edmonds part of the book Jeannette Muñoz. El paisaje como un mar, published by Asociación Lumière (the book will be available for purchasing during the festival), courtesy of its editor, Francisco Algarín Navarro. A...
By Manohla Dargis There are a multiplicity of adjectives that fit Ernie Gehr’s experimental film and digital work: abstract, beautiful, mysterious, invigorating, utopian. The work can also be oblique; this is not a bad thing! His 14-minute film History (1970), to take...
"I create works because they give me pleasure and satisfaction as well as a sense of inner balance. A work comes into being because of personal necessity. Creating a work for me is like breathing in and breathing out." Ernie Gehr Ernie Gehr. Programe 2. CGAI – 02/06 –...
"It's a unique project, based on promoting access, investigation, experience and adaptation to the changing film scenario" Clara Sánchez-Dehesa Galán. Elías Querejeta Zine Skola "Dive deep to find those strange fish who stare without seeing. Look for chance, explore...
If there is a work in the field of cinema and the arts that looks to the future, this is undoubtedly the one that appeals to the transmission of knowledge and the support of emerging talent. Offering alternatives to the processes and industrial approaches (those that...
Where does come from your interest in phantasmagorias? Can you tell us a bit more about Étienne-Gaspard Robert and how his work relates to yours? We were reading about pre-cinematic forms and the different types of magic lantern shows that were developed before the...
Pattern, measure, structure, correspondences, rhythms and combinations. This group of films join forces to think about the different expressions of these ideas in cinema. From the geometry in the composition of a shot, to the precision in the cuts, going through the...